Disappointment after disappointment...
Does this guy ever find anything? No.
shareWell, he 'found' a bottle of champagne thrown into a lake by a Nazi, but did he bring it to the surface for further inspection? Oh, no! "I think we should leave it here while we look for Nazi gold." And, surprise surprise, they can't find the bottle again. Then having spent the whole of an afternoon searching this lake, they give up and move on. Smh.
sharePointing out that:
-there are many reasons he may have chosen not to keep the bottle. For one, the experts he's with already mentioned that they had pulled up bottles before. It's possible that Josh/the producers decided it wasn't that important for the show to have a bottle/test it/whatever, since the episode was about gold. It's also possible that the experts Josh is with didn't *want* him to take a bottle for whatever reason, and that conversation just never made it to the final cut.
-I don't know how Expedition Unknown came to be, but for Destination Truth, Josh knew a producer who needed a host for the show. He thought of Josh because he had degrees in archaeology and acting, had actual archaeological experience in the field, had a passion for travel and was already traveling the world regularly. So basically, Josh wasn't the one behind DT, he just happened to know the guy who was.
-I've always gotten the feeling that with both shows, the goal is not so much to find concrete proof, but rather to tell the story. Like I mentioned before, Josh has degrees in archaeology and acting. People don't see a connection between the two, but Josh does - to him, both are about storytelling. So I think that for Josh, these shows are a chance to tell stories. With Destination Truth, it was telling the story of some unexplained things (many of which Josh and his whole team were clearly skeptics of) and the eyewitness accounts of those things. With Expedition Unknown, it's about telling stories of mythical things and places, lost artifacts, and supposed treasures, as well as to showcase the serious efforts some people are making to find those things. So it's about the stories behind these legends. If they do find some evidence on the show, that's great. But they aren't going into it believing that they will find that proof. Josh is just there to learn the story and share it.